A collection of documents bearing the signatures of rulers or important personages of France; most are preceded or followed by an engraving of the person. Mounted so that both sides of the document are visible
Description:
In French, English, Italian, Latin and Spanish., Collected, mounted and bound in one volume during the 19th century., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Dark blue goatskin, gilt, by Riviere and Son.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and France
Subject (Name):
Anne, Queen, consort of Louis XIII, King of France, 1601-1666., Catherine de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France, 1519-1589, Charles VIII, King of France, 1470-1498, Charles IX, King of France, 1550-1574, Charles X, King of France, 1757-1836, Eugénie, Empress, consort of Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1826-1920, Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1578-1637, Francis I, King of France, 1494-1547, Francis II, King of France, 1544-1560, Henry II, King of France, 1519-1559, Henry III, King of France, 1551-1589, Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1610, Louis XI, King of France, 1423-1483, Louis XII, King of France, 1462-1515, Louis XIII, King of France, 1601-1643, Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715, Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793, Louis Philippe, King of the French, 1773-1850, Louise, de Savoie, duchesse d'Angoulême, 1476-1531, Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1615, Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793, Marie Leszczyńska, Queen, consort of Louis XV, King of France, 1703-1768, Marie de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, 1573-1642, Marie-Thérèse, Queen, consort of Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1683, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, and Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873
Manuscript on paper (sturdy) of Documents and accounts (ca. 1400-1530) pertaining to the church of St. Gregory in Sebenico (Dalmatia). Folios 63v-64r contain a copy of a will, in Latin, of Gregory of Sebenico. Other items, including an inventory of the church of St. Gregory (dated 8 Sept. 1403) are in Italian
Description:
In Italian and Latin., Watermarks: unidentified mountain., Script: Arranged in a tabular format and written in many different cursive hands. Some entries have been crossed out., Numerous folios are stained and partly illegible; final leaves mutilated; loss of text throughout., and Binding: Date? Sewn with coarse thread on seven double, wound thongs. Tacketed to a brown goatskin wrapper with seven sets of four tawed, pinkish-brown thongs, wound around each other on the outside of the spine. Sewing holes about 10 mm. apart outline the edges of the spine, sides, fore-edge and envelope flaps. Mold has eaten into cover and book, and the wrapper has shrunk so that it is now much smaller than the bookblock. Home-made notarial binding? Covers are lined with fragments of a noted antiphonal (12th century); part of one sheet containing responds and antiphons for Epiphany and its octave is legible. Ca. 17 lines of text. Diastematic notation on a dry point staff with one red line. C and f are used as clefs, but from the condition of the sheet it is not possible to tell which clef should be associated with the red line.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., and Šibenik (Croatia)
Subject (Topic):
Accounts, Antiphonaries, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscript on paper of Adolfus von Wein, Doligamus. The text, a series of fables concerning the deceitful conduct of women, is heavily annotated with interlinear glosses and lengthy explanatory prose passages inserted both between segments of the text and in the outer margins. With Albertus Magnus, attributed author, De secretis mulierum; and Pope Pius II (Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini), Carmen in laudem Friderici Caesaris, a poem written in praise of Friedrich III (1415-93), King of the Germans and later crowned Holy Roman Emperor
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: similar to Piccard, Ochsenkopf XIII.173 and XI. 201, and similar in design to Briquet Main 11090, 11092-93., Script: Written by a single scribe in inelegant gothic cursive, with a smaller script for commentary and interlinear notations., Crude decorative initials, 2-line, in red, some with foliage designs in body of letter; first letter of each verse stroked with red., Some loss of marginalia due to trimming on ff. 8v, 9r., and Binding: Twentieth century. Red paste-paper case with a black, gold-tooled label.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Adolfus, von Wien, 14th cent. and Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, 1415-1493.
Subject (Topic):
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern), Fables, Laudatory poetry, Latin, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia